IN REPLY TO “PUBLIC DECENCY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6623, 12 September 1908, Page 15

IN REPLY TO “PUBLIC DECENCY.

(To the Editor "3/ Z. Times/') Sir, —Tli© plaint of "Public Decency''' in your issu« of to-day has aroused all that is tender in my nature. Poor, dear man! For I foci sure that h© is a man by the choice of hie nom de nlume. It does indeed seem shameful that a mere man should go about In a state of nervous fright .caused by the presence in Mb locality of stalwart healthy-Jook-iyoung feminines armed with murderous clubs. Poor man, I should advise him not to leave his house when he hears there is a hockeyine team within ten miles of his abode without the protection of hii big sister. The possibility of one of these horrible creatures capturing him, collar, pink tie. wary hair, snuff-coloured suit and *ll hi* UraJy fittinrs. is terrible to oontemulate. Sh* might take him horns to wips her boot* on or use as a stick rack/ To think, boo, that he should have to walk tha street or travel in their company (cruel contemplation) subject to their rude and brazen stare*. in proper quarters

might draw attention to this state ol things, and if tho author! “ id set th«ir way they might dctai. policemaii to accompany each team to the ricla at ol*y and .back, lit* duty ,wnv - walk in front with a rod flag and generally stop this/‘Ally nlay" tnot horto play, pleaso notice), „ But bo comfortxl. P.D. Spring n? coming, and the hockey reline will disappear soon. By next season lot us hope stops will bo taken to ensure that such timid and fearful males as P.D. may nroceed about theix* gentle amusements unmolested. . . . These dear little cigarctte-sucking parodies of m°n should bo projected from this awful menace, and the Amazons of Dry's Bay and Wiratnar controlled to suit the requirements of the very “mere male. ,J —X t»m, etc.. WYNNIIS. Pipitca street, September 10th, IGOB.